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LEARNING INTENTION:
a) To understand the purpose of formative and summative assessment
b) To understand the ongoing nature of effective formative assessment
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
a) I can discuss the difference between formative and summative assessment
b) I can identify everyday classroom activities that contribute to assessment for learning.
The purpose of assessment
“The primary purpose of assessment is to improve student’s learning and teachers’ teaching as both student and teacher respond to the information that it provides.” NZC p. 39
Assessment is about building a picture over time of a child’s progress and achievement in learning. This information tells how the child learns, as well as what the child learns. The teacher then uses this information to identify the child’s current learning and to provide appropriate support for future learning.
Principles of Assessment
Refer to the New Zealand curriculum (p.39-40) to explore some of the key characteristics of effective assessment (scroll down this link to the assessment heading).
Two principle approaches to Assessment
Formative (Assessment for Learning)
Summative Assessment (Assessment of learning or Credentialling).
Please navigate your way through the assessment pages on Tahurangi to develop your understanding of each type of assessment with a particular emphasis on Assessment for Learning. You have been provided some starting links (in bullet points above) but we recommend taking some time to explore the website and bookmark relevant (to your practice) links.
You will also find this video-clip helpful in gaining a very simple understanding of the difference between the two types of assessment: Formative vs. Summative Assessments
What does Assessment Involve?
There are a variety of methods for gathering and using information about how well children are learning across the curriculum. It is important therefore to prioritise what the child should be enabled to do and understand in terms of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and dispositions.
Having decided what is to be assessed, the teacher considers how it will be assessed and how the assessment information will be used.
Key documents to support your decisions in the above are ones you have already visited, however, a deep knowledge of these is required if teaching and learning is to be effective:
Documents include the New Zealand Curriculum, Literacy Learning Progressions, English Language Learner progressions
Standardised assessment tools are also available on Tāhurangi and through NZCER's Assessment Resource Bank - they each have a place in the teaching and learning process. Take the time to explore some examples of tools used in primary classrooms.
Module 6 Primary: There are TWO activities for you to complete this week.
Task One. Ideas tree
Task One. Ideas tree
Using the learning from your exploration of the above websites, complete the Ideas Tree:
Instructions:
Make a copy of the Ideas Tree template and rename it (include your name in the title eg SINGH Module6). Your responses must be brief and where possible in your own words. To add to each box just double click or add your own text box.
Start at the bottom of your tree in the space provided, and provide a definition of assessment in your own words.
Write a brief explanation of the purpose of Formative assessment and Summative assessment.
Give 3 examples of Formative assessment and 2 types of Summative assessment measures .
Briefly describe the implications for classroom practice of the examples you chose.
Once you have completed this, move on to task 2.
Task 2. Annotate a sample of classroom assessment in action
Task 2. Annotate a sample of classroom assessment in action
This second task involves using your knowledge of assessment to identify good assessment practices in the exemplar provided. In this example, the assessment gives the teacher information she needs in order to make important decisions about the teaching and learning process.
Your task is to analyse the teacher’s practice and identify the everyday activities she and her students engage in that reflects good assessment for learning practices. Make a copy of the template, rename it (include your name in the title), highlight the parts you are responding to and write your annotations in the right hand column.
Post task 1 and 2 to google classroom.
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